Title Vice President and General Counsel

Company Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS)

Age 43

Previous employment:

1984-88 Mannheimer & Zetterlöf

Scandinavian Airline Systems (SAS)

Headquarters: Stockholm, Sweden

Founded: 1946

Turnover: SEK 38 billion

Number of employees: 25,000

SAS is a member of the Star Alliance, which was formed in 1997 and includes Lufthansa, Thai Airways International, United Airlines, Air Canada and Varig.

All Nippon Airways, Ansett Australia and Air New Zealand are planning to join the alliance in 1999. The alliance flies to 600 destinations in 108 countries Recent competition case history: In July 1996 the European Commission began an investigation under Article 89 of the Treaty of Rome into airline alliances between British Airways and American Airlines; Lufthansa, SAS and United Airlines; KLM and Northwest; and Sabena, Austrian Airlines, Swissair and Delta.

In July 1998 The EU Commission ruled that the BA-AA alliance would be subject to conditions including reducing the frequency of flights on three routes and relinquishing up to 267 airport slots in London without compensation. The Commission also required the Lufthansa-SAS-United Airlines alliance to reduce the frequency of flights on two routes and to release up to 108 slots in Copenhagen and Frankfurt without compensation.